Reply to the article of C. Markello et al. entitled "Vascular pathology of medial arterial calcifications in NT5E deficiency: Implications for the role of adenosine in pseudoxanthoma elasticum"

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 199-200

  Lefthériotis, Georges ^a   Vanakker, Olivier ^b   Le Saux, Olivier ^c   Martin, Ludovic ^a  

^a ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5' NUCLEOTIDASE; ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE;

ANGIOID STREAK; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LETTER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOXANTHOMA ELASTICUM; SKIN DEFECT; SYMPTOM;

5'-NUCLEOTIDASE; ADENOSINE; ARTERIES; CALCINOSIS; GPI-LINKED PROTEINS; HUMANS; PSEUDOXANTHOMA ELASTICUM;

EID: 79956262677     PISSN: 10967192     EISSN: 10967206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2011.03.014     Document Type: Letter

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